Currently the Nansemonds number 409 individuals.
Tribal officials combed the membership rosters, attempting to contact long-missing members, sorting out the deceased and opening membership to families of tribal members. Loleta understated their lifestyle now with an emphatic “busy!”įinding their way through a bureaucratic maze of government and non-profit organization grants and programs enabled the Nansemonds to accomplish many of the goals they, for years, had hoped to achieve. Bass and his wife, Loleta, a retired nurse, were surprised at the flood of paperwork, meetings and opportunities.
